Meredith C. Hoppin
Frank M. Gagliardi Professor of Classical Languages

North Academic Building 151
85 Mission Park Drive
Williams College
Williamstown, MA 01267
(413) 597-2554

E-mail

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Teaching—Recent Courses

Greek and Latin

• Beginning Greek
• Intermediate Greek: Hesiod and Plato
• Advanced Greek: Greek Tragedy
• Introduction to Latin
• Advanced Latin: Horace Odes 1–3

Courses in Translation

• The Trojan War
• Helen, Desire, and Language
• Performing Greece and Rome

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Research

Areas of Interest

• Greek Tragedy
• Archaic greek Literature and culture, especially Homer and lyric poetry
• Women and gender studies
• Critical Theory, especially anthropological approaches to Greek culture
• Roman comedy

Selected Scholarship

Professor Hoppin has published articles on Horace Odes 1.5, Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and has a forthcoming article, “Logos as a Tool in Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Her work in progress includes “A Pot of Gold and the Virgin’s Womb in Plautus’ Aulularia,” and a book, Imitations of Action and Life: Homeric Reenactment in Sophocles’ Ajax.

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Education

• Ph.D. (1976) University of Michigan
• B.A. (1972) Carleton College

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Updated 9/8/09